Why Did Folks Slept on Layin Da Smack Down

[Blessed Koala]

I remember being younger and was puzzled as all hell of why folks put Mista Don't Play at such a high regard over Layin Da Smackdown which felt like Project Pat's most slept on album.

Dude was going in hard with those tracks:







Dude was flowing on them tracks. While MDP was a classic, it sucks that LDSD was easily forgotten. Hell Ghetty Green gets talked about more than LDSD and that album was wild forgettable beyond the single and a few tracks.

 

[PHamm]

Agreed. I don't think it was as good as MDP but i think it was on par with GG. All 3 are blassic

 

[Mr Clean]

If MDP is a 10 for Pat then Layin Da Smack Down gotta be an 8.5 at worst. I'm looking at the track list now and there are maybe 3 tracks I would skip tops and one is a skit

 

[Womb Raider]

Grammar

 

[brickfare]

i think hypnotized minds just put out a group of songs to keep the momentum going once Pat went to the Feds…probably not the album he would have released had he been free but there’s still plenty of bump on that hoe

 

[Yehuda]

I know I didn't, easily my second favorite Pat album, in fact I think both this and Mista Don't Play are better than Ghetty Green.

 

[blockburna420]

I remember waiting for Pat to get out of prison, seem like it was a long ass wait like 3 or 4 years

 

[DaHNIC82]

How he got away with that title?

 

[JayStarwind]

It's cool but it isn't those first two.

 

[Taadow]

I think they just had so much going at the time. We was still riding to Choices and Chat’s first one when that came out. That is the one with “Ooh Nuthin’” on it, right?

 

[brickfare]

I think they just had so much going at the time. We was still riding to Choices and Chat’s first one when that came out. That is the one with “Ooh Nuthin’” on it, right?

I been reading juicy’s book, as a squad/label, hcp had a LOT going on then smh

 

[JustCKing]

It leaked like 7 months in advance and he reworked the album. "Gel & Weave" was the single and it didn't get anywhere near the reception that "Don't Save Her" and "Chickenhead" got.

 

[Monoblock]

Slept on? Nah. It was just that it leaked months before the official release and by the time the album dropped all of the songs were already heard. They didn't change much so it didn't really make the same impact.

 

[bordeaux]

prob my most listened to album from him these days. i hear still ridin clean sampled often. i hope he's getting paid nicely from it.

apparently him doin jail time messed up the rollout. i do remember the singles getting heavy play but i cant speak for outside of memphis. i def think a video w/ juvenile wouldve help made a difference. i didnt know this existed till fairly recently.